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It comes after he made headlines this week over 'racist, misogynistic and sexist' comments he made on a radio show a decade ago.

He has faced backlash after Media Matters For America published old transcripts from his guest spots on the shock jock radio program Bubba the Love Sponge Show between 2006 and 2011.

In the tapes, Carlson made remarks minimizing statutory rape, used sexist slurs to refer to specific women and referred to Iraq as 'a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys'.

The Fox prime-time host responded by attacking Media Matters and vowing that 'we will never bow to the mob.'

In the only specific reference to his quoted remarks, Carlson said 'it's pointless to try to explain how the words were spoken in jest, or taken out of context, or in any case bear no resemblance to what you actually think.'